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Originally Posted by rcentros
If Amazon was already raising their prices "quite a bit" before the Apple/Big Six collusion, what was the point of the collusion? Jobs specifically said he would raise the prices of eBooks when he first announced the iPad. And this is why the Big Six and Apple were required to pay out settlements for price fixing.
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You do understand that we are talking well after that point. When Cotes issues her ruling, agency went away for several years until her order expired. Amazon was setting the prices. Agency went back into play in November of 2014, after a year long public battle between Amazon and Hatchette when Amazon tried to play extreme hard ball and got lots of bad press because of it.